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Dang. You might be rich and famous by then. Maybe they know that and they plan to have a bonafide celebrity? Anyway, I’d like to aid in your celebritydom (sp?)… Please let me know if you will make it to the 10/21 Panel of Experts. I really would like you to be there. I’ll need a bio and pic. Please.

Michelle–yes, I plan to be there. I’ll send you the bio. I don’t know if I have a pic. I’ll come up with something (much to my chagrin.)

Lydia–I dunno. It was pretty hard to misunderstand. We (Hazel and I) talked for a long time about it. I asked her if they needed people BEFORE 2009 and she said she had two names per year and she’d put me down for 2009. That sounds like the term starts in 2009 to me. I then said well, that was a long way away and I’d commit to it “Lord Willing” and Hazel said “well, you’re young. You’re not likely to die before then” and I said “Oh yes, I’m only 36 but I don’t like to count my chickens”.

Etc. We bantered like this for about 5 minutes. Pretty hard to misunderstand that.

‘Hi from another Nominating Committee member. No, dearie, this isn’t for only 2009. You will have a 3-year term beginning in 2007. So you will be on the committee for all of 2007, all of 2008, and all of 2009; then you roll off. Make sense?’

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